By Richard Cook


Having your wood lumps stabilized is fundamental. However, where skills lack and special instructions, the procedure can be tiresome. Hiring a professional to stabilize these blocks for you or buying their already completed lumps is expensive and you can cut down the cost through preparing yours. Stabilized wood blocks have multiple uses and can be used for knife handles, gun, and pistol grip and eventually furniture or crafts that help decorate the interior. Stabilizing these lumps enhances the durability and strength for the timber and dispenses warping whatsoever. Seemingly, stabilization process is cheap and highly lucrative when you facilitate it on your own. This article pinpoints certain tips on how to stabilize the timber chunks and the materials necessitated for the same process.

You need to compile a list of all the required materials from the protection gear all through to resin and colors or dyes. For protection gear, you need to have safety glasses, mask, and hand gloves that will enable you to hold the resin and all the dyes without any endangerment. Have clothes or an apron that you are comfortable putting on when handling the dyes and the resin as well. Endeavor to acquire resin, dyes for coloring, air compressors, and aluminum foil. An oven is also necessitated and must have the capabilities for heating beyond two hundred degrees.

In the market, multiple types of wood vary from durability to strength. Therefore, be ardent and identify the best timber to stabilize. You would never want to stabilize a piece of timber that is void in some places. Where you acknowledge gaps or void in a chunk, ensure to cover those gaps through polishing, sanding, or even applying super glue.

The timber chunks you are to use must be dried up. Through a moisture meter, you need to examine the moisture levels; they should be below ten percent. Where the meter is absent, ensure to use your food dehydrator to keep the wooden blocks for some time before the stabilization process. You can also use the toaster or bake the timber on your Fahrenheit. Where you use the Fahrenheit oven, make sure to use the airtight you acquired for cooling them off.

A stabilizing vacuum chamber or unit helps mix the resin and the dye together. Once you have mixed the two; where color is necessitated, ensure to inundate the blocks into the vacuum. Generally, manufacturers will avail reliable instructions for using a given brand. Therefore, make sure to peruse through the instructions and determine the whole procedure. Once the chunks are submerged, make sure to seal the vacuum ardently and follow the acquired instructions diligently.

When the timber hunks absorb the resin as well as the dye ensure to create a curing space. Curing entails having the blocks dry up. The drying procedure entails wrapping these resin-wetted chunks with aluminum foils. Preheat your oven up to two hundred degrees and have the wrapped hunks baked. The curing and cooling process might take a maximum of two days. Dried up resin on the chunk should be hard and well crystallized.

Finally, the already cured can be used for different purposes. Where you want to change the color or stabilize colorless chunks, ensure to use another resin. Never mix leftover resin with a patent one no matter what.

Stabilization process is not complicated or complex at all. It necessitates ardency and carefulness. Consequently, you will experience an interesting process that is profitable and rewarding.




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